CARBOOCEAN-IP

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CARBOOCEAN-IP Marine carbon sources and
sinks assessment Global Change and Ecosystems
(511176) The Norwegian CarboSchool project
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CARBOOCEAN

• 5 year Integrated Project on marine carbon
  sources and sinks funded by the EC with 14.5
  Million (FP6)
• 35 international partners from 14 countries
  (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland,
  Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain,
  Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the USA)
• cooperation with 8 research institutes from the
  US, Canada and Switzerland
• coordinated by the University of Bergen through
  an International Project Office in Norway
• http//www.carboocean.org for further information

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CARBOOCEAN

• aims at an accurate scientific assessment of the
  marine carbon sources and sinks within space and
  time
• will determine the oceans quantitative role for
  uptake of atmospheric CO2 (fundamental for all
  realistic prognostic climate simulations)
• Aims to reduce the present uncertainties in the
  quantification of net annual air-sea CO2 fluxes
  by a factor of 2 for the world ocean and by a
  factor of 4 for the Atlantic Ocean
• with special focus on the Atlantic and Southern
  Oceans of -200 to 200 years from now

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Norwegian CarboSchools project

• 25 pupils and science
• teachers from Bergen Katedral-
• skole (upper secondary school)
• on board of the RV Hans
• Brattstrøm to investigate sea
• water in Hjeltefjorden
• (25.08. and
• 01.09.2006)

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Hands-on experiments

• RV Hans Brattstrøm is equipped
• with a plankton net, a water
• sampler and a sensor for
• hydrography measurements
• Depth, temperature, salinity, and
• oxygen measurements and
• investigation of plankton

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Pupils job

• Perform the experiments
• on their own
• Collect all relevant data
• Analyse data and write a
• report
• Take pictures of scientific
• instruments and plankton
• Provide two posters for the
• CARBOOCEAN second annual meeting to give
  feedback to the scientists and the general public

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And the others

• 2 scientists/technicians explain the
• scientific background, what is
• measured, and demonstrate
• experiments
• 3 teachers encourage and guide the
• students, assist with experiments
• 2 journalists write a newspaper article
• for Bergens Tidende (BT, Norway)
• CARBOOCEAN project office
• provide background information,
• write for the university newspaper,
• take pictures film recordings,
• get feedback from all participants,
• inform the scientists and encourage
• further projects

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Bergens Tidende newspaper articleboth
available at http//www.carboocean.org
Bjerknes Times article
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Time frame

• April 2005 establish CarboSchools
• May 2005 contact potential Norwegian schools
• Aug 2005 present CarboSchools to the teachers at
  Bergen Katedralskole and discuss cooperation
• Dec 2005 invite teachers to BCCR, present
  research group, research topics, laboratories,
  and discuss potential school projects
• Jan/Feb 2006 translation of the CarboSchool
  booklet into Norwegian
• Spring 2006 further discussions of coop. in rel.
  to the school curriculum
• May 2006 CarboNordic start-up workshop
• Aug. 2006 CarboSchools research cruises to
  Hjeltefjorden
• Sep/Oct 2006 students work with the cruise data
  and write reports
• Mar/Apr 2007 Investigate water around Bergen
  together with pupils from different countries
  (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden)

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• Advantages/what made it a success?
• - highly motivated teachers
• - curious students
• - new national upper secondary school curriculum
  which acknowledge
• scientific projects
• - different aspects of a science projects e.g.
  chemistry, mathematics,
• physics, biology, language, international
  cooperation, etc.
• - motivated scientists/technicians
• Disadvantages/what could be improved?
• - more motivated scientists
• - acknowledge the school cooperation preformed
  by fellow scientist as a
• valuable part of their scientific work
• - economic support for simple instruments,
  travel, etc.
• Tips
• - try to get in contact with schools in the
  neighbourhood (to make it more
• convenient)
• - start simple

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Norwegian CarboSchools brochure
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CARBOOCEAN brochure
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